Good morning! Do you like the title? Nice and classy, I know. What can I say? That’s how I roll. I even found this definition at the
BOOB LIGHT:
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A dome light mounted on a ceiling that resembles a female breast with a decorative erect nipple. They are often found in pairs in 1980 style homes.
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Does every home built after 1979 have the dreaded boob lights? Our home was built in 2000 and we have a multitude of them in our house and it’s my personal mission to rid our house of them. I think they might multiply and I may have the mother of all boob lights living in my dining room. While I was finishing up the entryway last week, I was scouring Craiglist, Goodwill and Home Depot’s 70% off lighting sale trying to find replacement light fixtures for uber cheap. I was hoping to find something like the two pictured below but hubby thought they might hang too low in our entryway and I didn’t find any lights anyways.
While blog surfing the other day, I came across this great blog, and this . Thanks for the awesome idea Melissa! I didn’t even finish reading the post, I raced downstairs and grabbed two of lampshades that I found on clearance at Target a month or two ago, for the grand price of $4.98 a piece. They are the large size shade and worked perfectly in the entryway!
I went from this
To this:
I simply unscrewed that little “nipple” and put the shade on upside down with the ring fitting over the nipple area and then screwed the nipple back on and voila! Please don’t re-read that sentence too many times, it sounds dirtier every time I read it. But I just don’t know how else to explain the process to you. So my apologies.
The shades even soften the light a bit making it feel more warm and welcoming instead of the bright interrogation style boob lights. My hubby just informed me that the lights now have bras on. Oh man!
Now I just need to get rid of the Mother of all boob lights in my dining room and replace it with something less ginormous! Also I think that it looks like it could double as a small boat for cats or the Wonder Pets. I’m not even sure I could sell this thing on Craigslist, who buys boob lights? Wait, maybe don’t answer that question, I don’t want to know!
Do you have the dreaded boob lights in your home? Have you replaced them? Do tell!
***I ended up using the first set of lamp shades for my $15 thrift store lamps but I replaced the entryway ones with another pair of clearance lamp shades from Target that were only $3.24 each. You can see it in the picture below.
Don’t forget tomorrow is another round of Roomspiration with Shannon at and she’s hosting craft rooms! This is one that I am super excited about because I always think craft rooms look like so much fun to go play in, kind of like an adult version of a playroom. Get your minds out of the gutter, you know what I mean! Anyways, make sure to head over and check it out!
Shannon is a great blogger friend with wonderful ideas, thoughts and an awesome craft room!
I’m linking up here:
I've always thought they looked like boobs too! Thanks for the inspiration…great solution to the problem. Who would think that for the first time in my life I didn't really want "boobs". LOL
What a great solution, who would have thought all a boob light needed was a little support!
Cathy @ Room Rx
Wow, what a transformation! We do have the dreaded boob lights, only ours are brass. Double whammy. Yuck. We haven't replaced them yet, but I would love to take them down this very minute! I love your inspiration photos, I have been looking for lights just like those too!
I like this idea and I also thought that it warmed up your beautiful house, Ang. I'd like to stencil a design on the lamp shade first. You'll have to help me with that…YOU are the stencil queen! BTW: I HATE all boob lights. If I have to wear a bra around here…so should my boob lights.
You are hilarious Ange! Love the title! And, I'm heading out to Lowes today to buy a lampshade for the boob light in the playroom. You totally saved the day! I'm putting a bra on her ASAP!
Vanessa
Ha! I will never look at a "boob light" the same!!! The image is stuck in my head :-).
I'm hosting my 1st blog party today and I would love it if you would swing by and post one of your projects or recipes. I'm a follower of yours and enjoy getting your posts in my email box!
Awesome idea!! I have a few boob lights of my own which could use their own bras. Love this idea!
You always seem to put a smile on my face! lol I love the transformation! I still have a basement full of boob lights (8 I think) I need to replace with something the boys can't/won't break. Ugh. thanks for sharing! Chris
I found your link on Home Stories of A to Z and I just had to stop by. It was the title that caught my eye!
I'm glad I checked it out. What a great idea.
My parents actually just replaced some of our lights with some of these.